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The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays
The Aztec Treasure House New and Selected Essays Author:Evan S. Connell Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. "There's no end to the list, of course," Connell says, "because gradually it descends from such legen... more »dary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard."« less